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Comment: Well, well, the editorial board is so silly and did not do research on modern uranium mining and milling! Canada and Australia cannot contain their open pit mines or their tailings ponds! The pits and ponds flood during rainstorms, the tailing ponds leak into rivers and stream during normal every day mining. Winds take the uranium dust and spread it all over the countries. The following quote: "the community has to understand that how local uranium mine scientists and engineers" - this group of no knowledge or experience of mining except the President who has not work in mining for years! Plus the Canadian side of the mining has violated other countries people's lives and ruined their lands! Modern mining has problems and all the federal regulators do not come on the site until there is an accident. Uranium mining accident's cannot be taken back, so once the liners leaks into the streams or groundwater, you cannot take it back, once the ponds overflow from rainstorms, you cannot take in back, once the wind blows and takes the uranium dust all over our states, you cannot take it back, once the open pit uranium mine is open, you cannot control the radon gas escaping the pit and it cannot be taken back! " The following comment: "The community has to take uranium mine company at its word", well heck no, they will ruin this land, our water and our air, there is not one safe uranium minng in the world! No to uranium mining and milling now!
By Published by The Editorial Board
Published: November 27, 2009
Updated: December 1, 2009
It didn’t take long for the remnants of Hurricane Ida to soak the Dan River Region before opponents of uranium mining were out in force taking pictures and shooting video.
Extreme weather of any type is “Exhibit A” for mining and milling opponents because they believe the Dan River Region is too wet —— and sometimes too windy — for Virginia Uranium Inc. to be able to safety mine and process the 119 million pounds of uranium under Coles Hill.
Wind and water are just two of the issues facing Virginia as it confronts the issues raised by VUI’s interest in the Coles Hill deposit.
The uranium mining industry has responded to the challenge of controlling its own wastes by covering them with water or soils and layers of synthetic and natural liners, such as clay, to keep those wastes from seeping into the environment.
If VUI is allowed to move forward with the Coles Hill project, its tailings management system would be overseen by Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, among others.
For now, though, VUI doesn’t even have what Wales called a “specific, finalized design” for how tailings would be managed at Coles Hill, because the project hasn’t progressed to that point.
The community has to take VUI at its word that it’s working to develop an environmentally friendly operation. (Heck No !)
But at the same time, — and eventually its workers — handle mine tailings is one of the biggest issues surrounding uranium mining and milling.
While yellowcake would be Coles Hill’s product, the waste left behind — the tailings — would be its legacy.
That’s the stuff that will be left in Pittsylvania County, and how the company handles mine tailings is at the heart of the controversy over uranium mining and milling.
VUI’s opponents sometimes go overboard in their criticism of the company and its plans
The uranium opponents are correct to be concerned about how the byproducts of uranium mining and milling will affect this community when the last uranium has been trucked away and the mine is closed.
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